noun:

• daily life; daily routine; while awake or asleep; at all times; day in, day out; constantly; the four cardinal behaviors - walking, standing, sitting and lying [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• proportional representation electoral system (in which party votes are cast, and candidates from each party are elected based on an ordered list available to the public)

noun:

• scoring hand in hanafuda with one 20 point flower card and six 1 point flower cards ➜ 花札
• something (or someone) that stands out above the rest

noun:

• band

~する noun:

• to perform in a band; to create a (pop) band

noun:

• The Bund (Shanghai, China)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to inhale; to breathe in; to suck up; to imbibe
• to absorb; to soak up

noun:

• kremlin; citadel in Russian town - From Russian "kreml'"
• Great Kremlin Palace (Moscow); Kremlin
• Russian government; (former) Soviet government

noun:

• the way of the world in our time; the frame of mind of the people nowadays - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to make one's way in the world; to earn one's living; to live - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be stubborn; to be obstinate; to be perverse; to not give in ➜ 意地を張る

noun:

• mud-slinging (e.g. in a political campaign); mud-slinging match; smear campaign; mud wrestle

noun / ~する noun:

• consecration (of a person or thing, in Catholicism); sanctification; prayer of sanctification; ritual of consecration

expression:

• that being the case; in that case; if that's how it's going to go

expression:

• forming; comprising; making up ➜ 為す【なす】

adverb / interjection:

• why?; for what reason; how; in what way; for what purpose; what for ➜ 如何して【どうして】

~する verb (spec.):

• to penetrate; to sink in
• to devote oneself (to); to do intently and exclusively
• to do throughout (e.g. the night)

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to do for real; to do in real life; to carry (a story) into actual practice

noun:

• big crunch (theoretical reversal of the big bang resulting in the demise of the universe)

noun:

• Chlamydoselachus (genus containing only the frilled shark and the Southern African frilled shark in the family Chlamydoselachidae)

expression:

• in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

~の noun:

• worm-eaten; moth-eaten

noun:

• holes eaten in clothing, leaves, etc. by caterpillars, moths, etc.
• leaf warbler (any bird of genus Phylloscopus); chiffchaff; willow wren - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• warehouse style; house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud ➜ 土蔵造り

noun / ~する noun:

• building a kura storehouse; someone who builds kura storehouses

noun:

• taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something - four character idiom

noun:

• security police; special police
• special; TV special ➜ スペシャル
• standard-playing (record); SP ➜ ＬＰ
• shore patrol
• sales promotion ➜ セールスプロモーション
• save point - Baseball term ➜ セーブポイント
• short program (in figure skating) - Sports term ➜ ショートプログラム
• structured programming - IT term ➜ 構造化プログラミング

noun:

• Grand Tutor (second of the top three civil positions of the Zhou Dynasty)
• Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods) ➜ 左大臣

noun / ~の noun:

• place where things are sold; point of sale; POS; sales floor; counter (in shop)

noun:

• favorable time to sell; good time to sell ➜ 売り時・買い場

adverb / ~と adverb:

• creaking; squeaking - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun:

• packing in tightly; cramming; squeezing - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• hard (pressing, tying, twisting, etc.); tightly; with force - onomatopoeia

adverb / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• going hard (on someone); tormenting (e.g. with questions) - onomatopoeia